The Trudeau government is extending a Canadian Armed Forces deployment in war-ravaged Ukraine by two years, a move that Moscow decried as a counterproductive “military venture” it predicted will hinder chances for peace. The renewed training mission comes as the war in eastern Ukraine between Kiev and Russian-backed separatists has escalated, killing more soldiers and…

MOSCOW — Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko signed an order Thursday imposing sanctions on Russian-owned banks in Kiev’s latest protest against Russian support for separatists in the east of the country. The move will stop Ukrainian affiliates of three Russian financial institutions from moving capital abroad, according to a statement on the Ukraine presidency website. Poroshenko…

KIEV, Ukraine — When “little green men” invaded Crimea in the spring of 2014, Russian media went into overdrive, smearing Ukraine’s Euro-revolution as a “fascist coup d’état.” A group of professors and students struck back and unwittingly made history that spring when they launched StopFake.org, the first site to directly tackle and refute Russian propaganda….

Staunton, VA, March 14, 2017 – Although most observers recognize that Moscow is treating the Minsk Accords as a dead letter, few of them have focused on a more serious aspect of the Kremlin’s current policy in Ukraine: its effort to seize Mariupol and thus gain a land corridor to Russian-occupied Crimea, Leonid Polyakov says. The…

Russian military has deployed Murmansk-BN electronic warfare complex in the annexed Crimea to monitor all the NATO ships in the Mediterranean. This is reported by Crimea.Realities online media outlet. Murmansk-BN is a coastal electronic warfare complex, which conducts radio reconnaissance, intercepts the enemy signals and suppresses them along the entire short-wave range at the distances…

Recently the black ledger payments for Paul Manafort were translated from Ukrainian language to English. This Black ledger document shows the over 13 million dollars that were paid to Paul Manafort for his work with the Russian “Party of Regions” and Viktor Yanukovych from 2007 through 2012. Manafort cooperated with the Party of Regions for almost…

KIEV, Ukraine — The scene, captured on video Tuesday, appears like something post-apocalyptic, right down to the decrepit-looking freight train in the background. Unidentified men carrying clubs attack a group of men who seem to have commandeered the freight train, and a fight ensues with sticks, hurled stones and a buzzing chain saw. The defenders…

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko had a meeting with U.S. Senator Dick Durbin and U.S. Congressman Mike Quigley, during which the parties discussed the enhancement of strategic partnership between Ukraine and the United States and ways to counteract Russian aggression, according to the president’s press service. The Ukrainian president thanked both chambers of Congress for firm…

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has passed the law on ratification of the agreement between the Government of Ukraine and the European Union on Ukraine’s participation in the EU program “Competitiveness of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises” (COSME) for 2014-2020. 226 MPs voted for the draft law, an Ukrinform correspondent reports. COSME is the EU program…

KYIV — A separatist commander in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk has been assassinated, the Russia-backed separatists say. Mikhail Tolstykh, better known by his nom de guerre Givi, died after a bomb exploded in his office in the separatist stronghold of Donetsk just after 6 a.m. local time on February 8, de facto separatist…